As educators seek out new ways to energize and engage
their students and prepare them for the future, they need to know how to employ
the latest technologies in creative and innovative ways.

Learning Supercharged looks at emerging approaches and tools, and
incorporates professional educators’ stories of how and why they have
implemented each trend, including information on challenges faced and overcome,
how to get started and other resources to explore.

Topics covered in Learning Supercharged include:

Digital equity considerations

Digital citizenship

Personalized learning

Project-based learning

Blending formal and informal learning

Coding and robotics

Makerspaces

Gamification and badging

Open Educational Resources (OERs)

The book inspires educators to try new approaches with the understanding that
they will devise new ways to synthesize, interpret and implement ideas to fit
their context, learners and resources.

About the Authors

Lynne Schrum, Ph.D.,
is a professor in the Abraham S. Fischler College of Education at Nova
Southeastern University in Broward County, Florida. Previously, she served as
dean of the College of Education and Human Services at West Virginia University.
Her research and teaching focus on appropriate uses of information technology,
preparing school leaders and teachers for the 21st century, and effective and
successful online teaching and learning. She has written and edited 16 books and
numerous articles, and she’s a past editor of the Journal of Research on
Technology in Education (JRTE)
(2002-2012; 2016-2018). Schrum is also a past president of ISTE.

Sandi Sumerfield, Ed.D., has been a classroom teacher,
literacy coach, administrator, adjunct faculty and education consultant. Her
research and teaching focus on visual literacy skills to empower students as
writers and thinkers. She’s passionate about supporting educators in creating a
classroom community that embraces social justice and develops a culturally
responsive pedagogy that lifts student voice through writing.